Over 14 lakh children immunised during three-day Pulse Polio drive: Chetan Singh Jauramajra
- September 22, 2022
- Updated: 01:44 am
DW BUREAU
In order to maintain the polio-free status of Punjab, the Punjab Health Department under the visionary leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, in its three-day Pulse Polio drive has immunised 14,24,142 children under the Sub National Immunisation Day (SNID) drive, revealed Health and Family Welfare Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra.
This door to door drive was carried out in 12 districts of Punjab to ensure that every child less than five years of age was administered polio drops, said Chetan Singh Jauramajra while adding that Health department teams paid special attention to vulnerable areas such as brick kilns, railway stations, bus terminals, construction sites and slums.
Appreciating the tireless efforts of the volunteers, the Health and Family Welfare Minister stated that the state health department had deployed 11,865 polio vaccination teams and they all made commendable efforts for the success of this drive. The teams during the door-to-door activity ensured that every child is administered polio drops. The Health department Punjab and World Health Organisation had deployed internal supervisors and external monitors for multi-level monitoring at
various levels.
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